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Rather than face a hearing on a petition seeking his removal from office for refusing to protect the citizens of Nueces County, Democrat Texas District Attorney Mark Gonzalez resigned Tuesday, then announced his candidacy for Republican incumbent Ted Cruz’s Senate seat. On September 12, a hearing at Nueces County Courthouse was scheduled regarding a petition to remove Gonzalez from office, which cites several charges of the George Soros-aligned district attorney’s dereliction of duty, including: High Rate of Criminal Dismissals: Nearly three of every four criminal cases, including at least one murder indictment, were dismissed in Nueces Country over a three-year...

Just in time for the 2024 election, COVID looks to be making a comeback in the news cycle. With First Lady Jill Biden having tested positive for the virus on Monday night, President Joe Biden is following guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or so we're told. He's often been seen not wearing a mask, and even joking about how he's not. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the Wednesday edition of his podcast, "The Verdict," warned about what he referred to as "the most deadly COVID variant ever seen," which will be "the election variant." Speaking...

This video specifically shows how life looked in The capital of Rhodesia (Salisbury) and the city of Bulawayo, during the height of the population in 1974.

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams over his rhetoric on the migrant crisis on Thursday’s episode of “Jesse Watters Primetime.” ... DeSantis brought up that Florida banned sanctuary cities, which was met with strong approval by the state’s Hispanic community. He stated that people want “order.” “People want the rule of law, and I would say particularly Hispanic Americans want the rule of law,” DeSantis said. The Florida governor then stated that although New York City’s politicians are overwhelmingly liberal, even they see that border control is necessary for any...

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Aweek after then-Vice President Joe Biden began pressuring Ukraine to fire its chief prosecutor in late 2015 by withholding U.S. loan guarantees, the European Union reached internal consensus in a memo saying that Prosecutor Viktor Shokin’s office and the country at large had met its goals for fighting corruption, organized crime and human trafficking. The newly revealed memo directly undercuts the narrative crafted by Democrats during Donald Trump’s first impeachment and sustained during the 2020 presidential election, namely, that Biden fired Shokin over U.S. and European concerns that he wasn’t fighting corruption aggressively enough. At the time, Shokin was investigating...

A prominent leader in The Episcopal Church has accused a retired bishop of unwanted physical contact and verbal harassment in an incident that allegedly occurred last year. Episcopal Church House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris wrote a public letter to church deputies last week accusing an unnamed former bishop of physical and verbal harassment. Ayala Harris said that shortly after she was elected president in July 2022, the retired bishop "physically overpowered" her and made "inappropriate verbal statements." Ayala Harris submitted a Title IV complaint under the purview of the Disciplinary Board for Bishops against the retired bishop, while...

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry recently rejected the claim that bishops in the mainline denomination get a “free pass on behavioral issues,” amid accusations that a retired bishop physically and verbally harassed an official within the denomination. Recently, Episcopal Church House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris made public an allegation that a retired bishop had "physically overpowered" her and made "inappropriate verbal statements” last year. In a video message posted Tuesday, Curry addressed the allegations and fallout, which included a recent statement by several Episcopal bishops claiming that “there is a perception — or reality — that bishops...

Update from Ukraine | Ukraine Advances on the South and in Klishchiivka | Ruzzia can't handle it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eefq3Epl69c The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 6th September 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-560-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

At least two Republican presidential candidates are criticizing as excessive recent prison sentences for members of the far-right Proud Boys involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, casting the defendants as victims of an unfair justice system rather than leading participants in an effort to disrupt the peaceful transition of power. Several sentences have been handed down in the past two weeks: 22 years for Enrique Tarrio, 15 and 17 years for Zachary Rehl and Joseph Biggs, and 10 and 18 years for Dominic Pezzola and Ethan Nordean. The Proud Boys were behind major breaches of the...

How it started: “We are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. Say it with me. Dismantle. The. Minneapolis. Police. Department.” —Shivanthi Sathanandan, vice chair of the Minnesota Democrat Farm-Labor Party, June 5th, 2020. How it’s going: [T]hat all changed on Tuesday. Ms. Sathanandan was carjacked and viciously beaten:The second vice chairwoman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is calling for tougher consequences for criminals after she was beaten and carjacked in front of her young children at her home in Minneapolis on Tuesday. ***Sathananda was left with a broken leg, deep lacerations on her head, and bruising. She’s now calling...

37 Virginia State Assembly general elections have seen ad spending thus far. 14 have seen spending from both parties.

Sean McHugh was found guilty in a DC kangaroo court earlier this year for assaulting, impeding, or interfering with violent police officers on January 6. ..... Snip..... McHugh has spent 28 months in jail since his arrest by the Biden FBI. ..... Snip..... On Thursday Sean McHugh was sentenced to six and one-half years in prison. It was another outrageous sentencing against another unlucky Trump supporter. McHugh previously told The Gateway Pundit he wants the CCTV footage of Ray Epps to be made public. (As previously reported, Epps brought McHugh and multiple others into the fray that day.) Sealed footage...

If Speaker Kevin McCarthy and company really care about the border crisis, they should make it their top priority and be public about it. They should play hardball, using the budget process to fight for a secure border. If they don’t, it will be clear Republican leadership doesn't take the border seriously.

A US Appeals Court pausing a lower court order forcing Texas to remove barriers on the Rio Grande River... In the African nation of Mali deadly jihadist attacks... In northern Syria a US drone got dangerously close to a Russian An-30 spy plane... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a phone conversation with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky... Tens of thousands of government supporters rallied outside Israel's Supreme Court tonight... British police opening a probe into infant deaths at a hospital in Nottingham... France's Council of State upholding the ban on abayas... "We value these relations as North Korea is our...

Although Texas' longest-serving governor was, perhaps unsurprisingly, pro-oil and gas during his tenure, he didn't simply nod to those iconic, staple fuels: “You can be proud that Texas produces more energy from wind turbines than all but five countries,” he said.

Luke 5:1-11Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus climbs into Peter’s boat without asking permission. He simply commandeers this vessel that is central to the fisherman’s life and commences to give orders. This represents something of enormous moment: the invasion of grace.Though God respects our relative independence, he is not the least bit content to leave us in a “natural” state. Instead, he wants to live in us, to become the Lord of our lives, moving into our minds, wills, bodies, imaginations, nerves, and bones.This commandeering of nature by grace does not involve the compromising of nature but rather its perfection and...

Walmart is paying some new store workers less than it would have three months ago, a sign that employers are seeking to cut labor costs as the once-hot market for hourly staff cools. The country’s largest private employer changed its wage structure for hourly workers in mid-July. [Snip] The wage-structure change comes after Walmart and other large employers have for years steadily raised wages and added benefits to attract workers in a tight labor market. The retailer’s latest move suggests that the stresses companies are facing in trying to find employees are easing and that they need to find ways...

Former President Donald Trump, as well as South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are leading President Joe Biden in a head-to-head matchup, the latest CNN poll found. The survey asked respondents who they would choose in a series of hypothetical head-to-head matchups, all including Biden and various GOP candidates. Trump, the clear leader in the Republican primary race, leads Biden in a head-to-head matchup by one percent, or 47 percent to 46 percent. Notably, Trump’s lead is within the ± 3.6 percent margin...

Patsy Cline was born on the 8th of September, 1932, in Winchester, Virginia. As her words attest, she is a country music great: “You want me to act like we’ve never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we’ve never met , and I’ve tried and I’ve tried, but I haven’t yet… You walk by, and I fall to pieces.” “I’m gonna walk a little bit of dog.” “Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.” “Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain’t as big as the Grand Ole...